半天
Chinese
half; semi-; incomplete half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half |
day; sky; heaven | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| simp. and trad. (半天) |
半 | 天 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): bun3 tin1
- Jin (Wiktionary): ban3 tie1
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pòaⁿ-thiⁿ
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5poe-thi
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): bonn4 tienn1
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bàntiān
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄢ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bàntian
- Wade–Giles: pan4-tʻien1
- Yale: bàn-tyān
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banntian
- Palladius: баньтянь (banʹtjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pän⁵¹ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: bàntiānr
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄢˋ ㄊㄧㄢㄦ
- Tongyong Pinyin: bàntianr
- Wade–Giles: pan4-tʻien1-ʼrh
- Yale: bàn-tyānr
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: banntial
- Palladius: баньтяньр (banʹtjanʹr)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pän⁵¹ tʰi̯ɑɻ⁵⁵/
- (Dungan)
- (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: bun3 tin1
- Yale: bun tīn
- Cantonese Pinyin: bun3 tin1
- Guangdong Romanization: bun3 tin1
- Sinological IPA (key): /puːn³³ tʰiːn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jin
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pòaⁿ-thiⁿ
- Tâi-lô: puànn-thinn
- Phofsit Daibuun: pvoartvy
- IPA (Xiamen): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ tʰĩ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /puã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰĩ³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /puã²¹⁻⁵³ tʰĩ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Taipei): /puã¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰĩ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /puã²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰĩ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- Xiang
Noun
半天
- half a day
- (figurative, hyperbolic) a long time; quite a while; a while; forever
- 搞了半天都未能解決，有沒有維基人能幫幫忙？ [MSC, trad.]
- From: 2006: Encyclopedist, 幫助討論:創建新條目 (Help talk:Creating new pages)
- Gǎo le bàntiān dōu wèinéng jiějué, yǒu méiyǒu wéijīrén néng bāngbāngmáng? [Pinyin]
- I've been working on this for quite a while, but still am unable to solve the problem. Are there any Wikipedians who can help me out?
搞了半天都未能解决，有没有维基人能帮帮忙？ [MSC, simp.]
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 半天 (“half a day”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 半天 | |
| Northeastern Mandarin | Harbin | 半天, 半晌 |
| Jilu Mandarin | Jinan | 半天 |
| Central Plains Mandarin | Luoyang | 半晌 |
| Xi'an | 半天 | |
| Xining | 半天 | |
| Xuzhou | 半天 | |
| Lanyin Mandarin | Yinchuan | 半天 |
| Ürümqi | 半天 | |
| Southwestern Mandarin | Chengdu | 半天 |
| Wuhan | 半天 | |
| Guiyang | 半天 | |
| Liuzhou | 半天 | |
| Jianghuai Mandarin | Nanjing | 半天 |
| Yangzhou | 半天 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 半晝 |
| Dongguan | 半日 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 半日 |
| Lichuan | 半日 | |
| Pingxiang | 半工 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 半日 |
| Yudu | 半工, 半日 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 半日 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 半天, 半晌 |
| Northern Min | Jian'ou | 半工 |
| Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 半日 |
| Southern Min | Xiamen | 半工, 半日, 半晡 |
| Quanzhou | 半工, 半日 | |
| Zhangzhou | 半日 | |
| Zhangzhou (Changtai) | 半晡仔 | |
| Tainan | 半工 GT, 半日 GT, 半晡 GT | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 半日 | |
| Haikou | 半日 | |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 半工, 半日 |
| Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang) | 半工, 半日 | |
| Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu) | 半工 | |
| Xianyou | 半工 | |
| Xianyou (Fengting) | 半工 | |
| Xianyou (Youyang) | 半工 | |
| Southern Pinghua | Nanning (Tingzi) | 半日 |
| Wu | Shanghai | 半日, 半天, 半白天 |
| Shanghai (Chongming) | 半天, 半日 | |
| Suzhou | 半日, 半日天 | |
| Danyang | 半天 | |
| Hangzhou | 半日 | |
| Ningbo | 半日 | |
| Wenzhou | 半日 | |
| Jinhua | 半日 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 半天 |
| Loudi | 半日 | |